3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (170+ words) From 2016 to 2023, the number of substantiated cheating incidents in NZQA exams never reached more than 448 in a single year. In 2024 that number had risen to 738. In 2025, there were more than a thousand. The most prevalent form of cheating in 2025 (168 cases)…...

3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (274+ words) The National Party is promising to modernise New Zealand’s sexual consent laws if re-elected. Currently, New Zealand has no positive definition of consent in legislation, instead only providing a list of situations in which consent cannot be given. Writing for…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (196+ words) It’s July 22, 2026, and plug-in solar panels are illegal in New Zealand. In 2012, WorkSafe announced a prohibition on the inverters required to make them work, citing “significant risks” of fire and serious harm. But advocates like Rewiring Aotearoa say that the…...

6+ day, 11+ hour ago   (774+ words) The true crime genre of entertainment is hugely popular and lucrative. Forensic scientist Ruben Miller shares a reminder of the families still living those stories. The other day I came across a playlist called “True Crime for Sleep”. I had…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1533+ words) If you’re in New Brighton for a good time, and also a delicious one, these are the food and drink spots worth seeking out, according to Papa’s Smashies owner Piripi Baker. “It feels like there shouldn’t be a suburb this…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (191+ words) The H5N1 strain of bird flu – the highly infectious variant that has swept across the Northern Hemisphere since 2020 and recently reached Australia – was confirmed in New Zealand yesterday after a brown skua found on Petone Beach in Wellington tested positive. Biosecurity…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (251+ words) New Zealand is “highly likely” to join the newly-formed Australia-Fiji defence alliance, David Seymour confirmed on Monday, speaking in his position as acting prime minister. Australian and Fijian leaders signed the mutual defence agreement known as the Ocean of Peace…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (735+ words) Travelling overseas is expensive, especially if you’re planning to go all the way to London. What if you just went to Hamilton instead? Is Kirikiriroa Hamilton the new London? Yes, we’re really doing this. Now, settle down and hear me…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (209+ words) Narendra Modi, the prime minister of India, is scheduled to arrive in New Zealand late this Friday. This is the first visit to New Zealand from an Indian prime minister in 40 years. It is also arguably the most significant state…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (728+ words) Twenty-three questions to test your level of lit over the long weekend. At the bottom of the list of questions you’ll find where the answers can be revealed; and where your score places you on the lit-o-metre. 1. Name the short…...